Environmental Factor, April 2010, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Postdoc Brings Home SOT Awards

By Eddy BallApril 2010

Wang said of her awards, "It was a great honor to me and our laboratory that my poster won the NTSS first-place award and AACT Best Abstract Award. I could not have accomplished this without the great research environment at NIEHS."
(Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw)

Wang, left, demonstrated her team spirit last July as she and Miller, right, kicked off the "I Am Intramural" campaign at NIEHS (see story(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2009/august/spotlight-campaign.cfm)).
(Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw)

NIEHS research fellow Xueqian (Shirley) Wang, Ph.D., received first-place prizes for her poster at the annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting, March 7-11 in Salt Lake City. Wang(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/ltp/intrareg/staff.cfm) has been part of the NIEHS Laboratory of Toxicology and Pharmacology Intracellular Regulation Group, headed by Principal Investigator and Chief David Miller, Ph.D.(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/ltp/intrareg/index.cfm), for the past three years.

Wang was doubly fortunate with special interest group (SIG) and specialty section (SS) awards for her poster, "The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Regulates ABC [ATP-binding cassette] Transporters at the Blood-Brain Barrier." Her first honor came early in the meeting with the American Association of Chinese in Toxicology (AACT)(http://www.toxicology.org/isot/sig/aact/index.asp) SOT-SIG and Charles River Best Abstract Award of a plaque and $300. On March 10, Wang learned she had also won the first-prize Neurotoxicology SS Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award(http://www.toxicology.org/ISOT/SS/neurotox/index.asp).

In her submission letter, Wang said, "Given the role of ABC transporters in drug pharmacokinetics, our research has important implications, especially with regard to the interactions between environmental contaminants and pharmacotherapy for both the CNS (central nervous system) and the periphery."

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